Is it possible for students to be successful without being aware of their strengths and weaknesses? Do students know how important is to recognize their own abilities? Do they know how to use their intelligences in order to improve understanding of a material that they have to study? Achieving academic goals is impossible without recognizing those strengths. As for me, the three strongest abilities that I possess are spatial, interpersonal and linguistic intelligence, and using them helps me to ...

Throughout our lives, we are faced with many different learning experiences. Some of these experiences have made a better impact than others. We can attribute this to our learning style. A persons learning style is the method through which they gain information about their environment. Research is going on all over the world to help explain learning styles. As teachers, it is our responsibility to learn about these different learning styles so that we can appeal to every type of learner in our c...

Howard Gardner's MI essay Multiple Intelligence As a teacher it will always be my responsibility to keep up to date on new research done on learning theories. That way I am able to provide a fun and exciting learning environment for my students. After learning about Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences I now realize how important it is to make sure I work hard to include every child into my curriculum. Gardner's theory is that everyone is able to recognize a student that does scores great on ...

Popular Answers to Some Psychological Questions [1] by H.K. Nixon 1. INTRODUCTION The keenest classroom discussions in psychology center around such questions as telepathy, pre-natal influence, external signs of character, and the like. The beginning student especially, while willing to admit ignorance on many technical questions, comes to psychology with certain concepts of causation in human behavior quite firmly fixed. One of the common duties of the instructor is to help him sort over this i...

Jim Stigler, the UCLA psychologist, was fascinated by the fact that Asian students routinely did better academically at elementary math, so he set up an experiment. He gave the same math problem that had no solution to small groups of American kids and small groups of Japanese kids. The American kids tackled the problem, and gave up after trying only briefly. The Japanese students, however, continued to try to find a solution to the problem. Stigler believes that the Asian believe that 'hard wor...

Charles Huang Writing 50 5-650 April 16, 2001 The Seven Intelligences Society has taught us to see education and intelligence in a very black and white perspective. In school, students learn Mathematics, English, and History; they also learn that in order to be intelligent, they must excel in all of those aspects taught in school. Many aptitude tests such as the Student Aptitude Test or the Stanford Nine Test gear towards certain subjects to attempt to measure ones intelligence. But is there rea...

Dr. Multiple Intelligence? S Josh Lammers Dr. Gannon November 5, 2001 Multiple Intelligence's Thought out our lives, we are faced with many different learning experiences. Some of these experiences have made a better impact than others. This can be attributed to everyone's different multiple intelligences or learning styles. A persons learning style is the method though which they gain information about their environment. As a teacher, it is our responsibility to know these styles, so we can rea...